Tool

Send large message

Slack Send Large Message is a powerful AI tool designed to help users send messages exceeding 3000 characters to any Slack channel, group, or user effortlessly. It leverages Slack's chat.postMessage and chat.scheduleMessage APIs to enable seamless communication without message length restrictions.

Slack

Features

  • Supports sending messages longer than 3000 characters to channels, groups, or users.
  • Allows scheduling messages up to 120 days in advance using ISO 8601 datetime format.
  • Includes options to post messages as the authenticated user or as a bot with customizable username and icon.
  • Supports Slack markdown formatting with the ability to disable markup parsing if needed.
  • Enables replying to existing threads, adding message metadata, and configuring link/media unfurl settings for enhanced message presentation.

Benefits

  • Overcomes Slack's native message length limits for enhanced communication.
  • Improves team collaboration by allowing detailed and lengthy messages without segmentation.
  • Offers scheduling capabilities to automate message delivery and manage communication timing.
  • Provides customization options for bot identity and message formatting to align with branding.
  • Enhances message organization through thread replies and metadata, increasing message context and clarity.

Description

Send a large message (more than 3000 characters) to a channel, group or user. See postMessage or scheduleMessage docs here

Parameters

10 parameters

NameTypeDescription
conversationrequiredstring

Select a public or private channel, or a user or group

textrequiredstring

Text of the message to send (see Slack's formatting docs). This field is usually necessary, unless you're providing only attachments instead.

mrkdwnboolean

true by default. Pass false to disable Slack markup parsing. See docs here

as_userboolean

Optionally pass true to post the message as the authenticated user, instead of as a bot. Defaults to false.

post_atstring

Messages can only be scheduled up to 120 days in advance, and cannot be scheduled for the past. The datetime should be in ISO 8601 format. (Example: 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z)

include_sent_via_pipedream_flagboolean

Defaults to true, includes a link to Pipedream at the end of your Slack message.

customizeBotSettingsboolean

Customize the username and/or icon of the Bot

replyToThreadboolean

Reply to an existing thread

addMessageMetadataboolean

Set the metadata event type and payload

configureUnfurlSettingsboolean

Configure settings for unfurling links and media

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